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A Test of the 'Krugman Hypothesis' for the United States, Britain, and Western Germany

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2003

Rising wage inequality in the U.S. and Britain (especially in the 1980s) and rising continental European unemployment (with rather stable wage inequality) have led to a popular view in the economics profession that these two phenomena are related to negative relative demand shocks against the...

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Determinants of Child Care Participation

Coneus, Katja; Goeggel, Kathrin; Muehler, Grit - 2007

When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the decision to use child care is a major challenge. In this study, we provide evidence on the determinants of institutional child care use accounting for the endogeneity of...

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Firm Level Innovation and Productivity: Is there a Common Story Across Countries?

Peters, Bettina; Lööf, Hans; Janz, Norbert - 2003

Recent studies have documented extensive heterogeneity in firm performance within countries, and innovation has been found as an important determinant. This paper addresses the issue of innovation firm performance across countries. A growing number of national firm level studies on the...

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Bankruptcy and Voluntary Liquidation: Evidence for New Firms in East and West Germany after Unification

Prantl, Susanne - 2003

Exploiting the unique economic situation after German unification, I investigate how exit decisions deviate between new firms in a transition and a comparatively stable market environment. Two competing exit mechanisms are considered: entrepreneurial self-selection via voluntary liquidation and...

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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? Empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...

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Education, Gender and Earnings in France and Germany: Level and Dispersion Effects

Lauer, Charlotte - 2004

This paper analyses the relationship between education, gender and earnings in France and Germany. The model chosen … here enables to estimate the impact of education not only on the expected earnings level but also on their dispersion … general instruction yields an earnings premium that cannot compensated by a vocational degree. Moreover, education affects the …

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Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen nach Qualifikationen und Altersgruppen: Eine empirische Analyse auf Basis der IAB-Beschäftigtenstichprobe

Garloff, Alfred; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Kohn, Karsten - 2003

Diese Arbeit untersucht empirisch den Zusammenhang von Beschäftigung und Lohnstrukturen zwischen sowie innerhalb von Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen. Zunächst werden Substitutionselastizitäten zwischen Qualifikations- und Altersgruppen geschätzt und die Lohnveränderungen bestimmt, die...

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Unemployment, Labor Market Transitions, and Residual Wage Dispersion

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

It is commonplace in the debate on Germany?s labor market problems to argue that high unemployment and low wage dispersion are related. This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and residual wage dispersion for individuals with comparable attributes. In the conventional...

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Not Employed 37 Hours or Employed 41? A CGE Analysis for Germany

Conrad, Klaus; Koschel, Henrike; Löschel, Andreas - 2005

The objective of our analysis is to find out whether an increase in working time without pay compensation can be considered an adequate policy to reduce unemployment. From the perspective of economic theory the outcome is in general ambiguous: On the one hand, as the increase in working time...

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Descriptive Evidence on Labor Market Transitions and the Wage Structure in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Garloff, Alfred - 2005

Equilibrium search theory suggests that the wage distribution in a cross section of workers is closely related to labor market transitions and associated wage changes. Accordingly, job?to?job transitions are central in explaining the wage distribution. This paper uses the IAB employment...

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